Natural Hazards in Puerto Rico: Attitudes, Experience, and Behavior ofHomeowners. Program on Environment and Behavior

摘要

This book reports the findings of a 1990 sample survey of Puerto Ricanhomeowners. The purposes of the survey were threefold: first, to document perceptions and response to a variety of natural hazards confronting Puerto Rican residents; second, to assess the effects of different intensities of experience with a hurricane on risk perception and insurance purchase; and third, to compare attitudes and response to natural hazards in two different environmental,